2 Chi J Intl L 35
Martha C. Nussbaum

Following the complex history of the struggle for human rights through law in India provides a fascinating study of the prospects and problems for implementation of international human rights norms in a parliamentary democracy, against background traditions of entrenched inequality. This article considers the ways in which domestic political processes have implemented, or failed to implement, rights that are important to the international human rights debate—in one case responding to the stimulus of an international treaty, but often enacting ideals already explicit in the national Constitution.